Robert T. O’Malley

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Robert T. O’Malley is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert T. O’Malley has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Oceanography, 10 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Robert T. O’Malley's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (6 papers). Robert T. O’Malley is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (6 papers). Robert T. O’Malley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Robert T. O’Malley's co-authors include Michael J. Behrenfeld, Emmanuel Boss, David A. Siegel, Allen J. Milligan, Gene C. Feldman, Charles R. McClain, Jorge L. Sarmiento, Paul G. Falkowski, Ricardo M. Letelier and Toby K. Westberry and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Robert T. O’Malley

18 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity

2006 1.8k citations Michael J. Behrenfeld, Robert T. O’Malley et al. Nature profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Robert T. O’Malley	2.3k	1.1k	1.1k	372	237	20	2.9k
Joaquim I. Goés	2.2k 1.0×	827 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	367 1.0×	398 1.7×	101	2.9k
Diego Macías	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	817 0.7×	442 1.2×	260 1.1×	94	2.9k
Mark E. Baird	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	1.5k 1.3×	267 0.7×	207 0.9×	103	3.1k
Ivan D. Lima	3.3k 1.5×	1.8k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	941 2.5×	328 1.4×	54	4.2k
Paul Tett	2.5k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	950 0.9×	290 0.8×	751 3.2×	74	3.3k
Cécile S. Rousseaux	1.6k 0.7×	980 0.9×	971 0.9×	279 0.8×	99 0.4×	31	2.2k
Timothy J. Cowles	2.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	445 1.2×	344 1.5×	52	3.2k
M. J. Atkinson	2.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	2.5k 2.2×	206 0.6×	194 0.8×	47	3.4k
Christine Klaas	2.4k 1.1×	551 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	576 1.5×	384 1.6×	45	2.9k
Julia Uitz	3.8k 1.7×	914 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	374 1.0×	397 1.7×	56	4.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert T. O’Malley

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20 of 20 papers shown

O’Malley, Robert T., et al.. (2022). Remote triggering of high magnitude earthquakes along plate boundaries. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 1138–1138. 2 indexed citations

Behrenfeld, Michael J., Robert T. O’Malley, Emmanuel Boss, Lee Karp‐Boss, & Christopher C. Mundt. (2021). Phytoplankton biodiversity and the inverted paradox. ISME Communications. 1(1). 52–52. 17 indexed citations

Laurel, Benjamin J., Mary E. Hunsicker, Lorenzo Ciannelli, et al.. (2021). Regional warming exacerbates match/mismatch vulnerability for cod larvae in Alaska. Progress In Oceanography. 193. 102555–102555. 30 indexed citations

Bolaños, Luis M., Lee Karp‐Boss, Chang Jae Choi, et al.. (2020). Small phytoplankton dominate western North Atlantic biomass. The ISME Journal. 14(7). 1663–1674. 68 indexed citations

Litzow, Michael A., Mary E. Hunsicker, Eric J. Ward, et al.. (2020). Evaluating ecosystem change as Gulf of Alaska temperature exceeds the limits of preindustrial variability. Progress In Oceanography. 186. 102393–102393. 37 indexed citations

Behrenfeld, Michael J., Peter Gaube, Alice Della Penna, et al.. (2019). Global satellite-observed daily vertical migrations of ocean animals. Nature. 576(7786). 257–261. 127 indexed citations

O’Malley, Robert T., Debashis Mondal, C. Goldfinger, & Michael J. Behrenfeld. (2018). Evidence of Systematic Triggering at Teleseismic Distances Following Large Earthquakes. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 11611–11611. 12 indexed citations

Behrenfeld, Michael J., Yongxiang Hu, Robert T. O’Malley, et al.. (2016). Annual boom–bust cycles of polar phytoplankton biomass revealed by space-based lidar. Nature Geoscience. 10(2). 118–122. 157 indexed citations

Behrenfeld, Michael J., Robert T. O’Malley, Emmanuel Boss, et al.. (2015). Revaluating ocean warming impacts on global phytoplankton. Nature Climate Change. 6(3). 323–330. 259 indexed citations

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O’Malley, Robert T., Michael J. Behrenfeld, Toby K. Westberry, et al.. (2014). Geostationary satellite observations of dynamic phytoplankton photophysiology. Geophysical Research Letters. 41(14). 5052–5059. 21 indexed citations

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O’Malley, Robert T., et al.. (2013). Improbability mapping: A metric for satellite-detection of submarine volcanic eruptions. Remote Sensing of Environment. 140. 596–603. 7 indexed citations

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Halsey, Kimberly H., Robert T. O’Malley, Jason R. Graff, Allen J. Milligan, & Michael J. Behrenfeld. (2013). A common partitioning strategy for photosynthetic products in evolutionarily distinct phytoplankton species. New Phytologist. 198(4). 1030–1038. 74 indexed citations

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O’Malley, Robert T., et al.. (2011). Epipelagic fish distributions in relation to thermal fronts in a coastal upwelling system using high-resolution remote-sensing techniques. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 68(9). 1865–1874. 36 indexed citations

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Shang, Shaoling, et al.. (2010). Comparison of primary productivity models in the Southern Ocean: preliminary results. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7678. 767808–767808. 10 indexed citations

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Behrenfeld, Michael J., Toby K. Westberry, Emmanuel Boss, et al.. (2009). Satellite-detected fluorescence reveals global physiology of ocean phytoplankton. Biogeosciences. 6(5). 779–794. 261 indexed citations

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Behrenfeld, Michael J., Robert T. O’Malley, David A. Siegel, et al.. (2006). Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity. Nature. 444(7120). 752–755. 1774 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barth, John A., Robert T. O’Malley, Jane Fleischbein, Robert L. Smith, & Adriana Huyer. (1996). SeaSoar and CTD observations during coastal jet separation cruise W9408A, August to September 1994. 4 indexed citations

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Kosro, P. Michael, John A. Barth, Jane Fleischbein, Adriana Huyer, & Robert T. O’Malley. (1995). SEASOAR and CTD Observations During EBC Cruises W93O6A and W9308B, June to September 1993.. 7 indexed citations

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O’Malley, Robert T., P. Michael Kosro, Roger Lukas, & Adriana Huyer. (1994). SEASOAR observations during a COARE surveys cruise, W9211B, 12 December 1992 to 16 January 1993. 1 indexed citations

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Huyer, Adriana, et al.. (1994). SEASOAR and CTD observations during a COARE surveys cruise, W9211A, 8 November to 8 December 1992. 1 indexed citations

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